Verse 45

⁴⁵Spoken to so, Mucukunda bowed to him and, full of gladness, knowing him for the god Narayana and remembering what Garga had said, spoke: ⁴⁶Lord, bewildered by your own maya, this person does not serve you, and sees what is no good to him. He clings for happiness to households, which are where pain comes from, and woman and man are both cheated. ⁴⁷Having come by a human birth, hard to get here, and unmaimed somehow, and without any effort, spotless one, a man of bad mind does not serve your lotus foot, but is like a beast fallen into the blind well of a house. ⁴⁸Unconquered one, this time of mine has gone for nothing: a king of the earth swollen with the pride of a kingdom's splendour, taking a mortal body for himself, clinging to sons and wife and treasury and land, with cares that had no end.

⁴⁹In this body, which is like a pot or a wall, I set myself up as god among men, and with chariots and elephants and horses and captains of foot about me I went about the earth in my mad pride, counting you as nothing. ⁵⁰A man made careless by all his thinking of what must be done, his greed grown big, hungry after what the senses want: you, who are never careless, come on him suddenly, as a snake licking its lips comes on a mouse. You are the ender.